better to imprison an innocent man than to let any guilty go free?

SmarterthanYou said:
apples and oranges. total bullshit comparison.
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You're arguing that people shouldn't ignore issues just because they aren't normally affected by them because one day they might be. I'm taking it to an extreme to demonstrate the fallacy of your argument.

And because It makes me happy to poke holes in arguments.
 
Disillusioned said:
You're arguing that people shouldn't ignore issues just because they aren't normally affected by them because one day they might be. I'm taking it to an extreme to demonstrate the fallacy of your argument.
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let me give you your sign.

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Superfreak said:
No, it is far better to have 100 guilty go free than one innocent go to jail.
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you know, I've always believe this, and perhaps I still do, but logically, and from a utilitarian perspective, it probably isn't true. If we are to assume those 100's are murderers, you need only a small number to re-offend for it to be a net-loss for society. hmmmm
 
bravo said:
Only 2000 in 23 years ?............. 7,225,800 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, or prison) in 2009


......Thats quite a record......in 23 years there must have been more than 10 million of people tried for serious crimes in the US.....

Thats about .0002% that were questionable.....
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Those are the innocents we found out about, idiot. The rest of them are still in prison.
 
Rune said:
Those are the innocents we found out about, idiot. The rest of them are still in prison.
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And nobody addresses the even more disturbing part. That the criminals who were supposed to be in prison for those crimes, are still out here with us.


As an interesting side note, almost everybody in prison says they didn't do it, are you really going to trust them?
 
Darla said:
Jesus christ SF, can't I find something funny without being cross-examined? I am not interested in yet another Zimmerman circle. I just thought what he said was funny.
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Sorry, Dar, Dar. You're just too political for anyone to take you any other way.
 
more shining examples of the idiocy 'imprisoning innocents is better than letting guilty go free'.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-13/innocent-incarcerated-prisoners/55585176/1

A USA TODAY investigation, based on court records and interviews with government officials and attorneys, found more than 60 men who went to prison for violating federal gun possession laws, even though courts have since determined that it was not a federal crime for them to have a gun.

Many of them don't even know they're innocent.

The legal issues underlying their situation are complicated, and are unique to North Carolina. But the bottom line is that each of them went to prison for breaking a law that makes it a federal crime for convicted felons to possess a gun. The problem is that none of them had criminal records serious enough to make them felons under federal law.

Still, the Justice Department has not attempted to identify the men, has made no effort to notify them, and, in a few cases in which the men have come forward on their own, has argued in court that they should not be released.

Justice Department officials said it is not their job to notify prisoners that they might be incarcerated for something that they now concede is not a crime. And although they have agreed in court filings that the men are innocent, they said they must still comply with federal laws that put strict limits on when and how people can challenge their convictions in court.

"We can't be outcome driven," said Anne Tompkins, the U.S. attorney in Charlotte. "We've got to make sure we follow the law, and people should want us to do that." She said her office is "looking diligently for ways, within the confines of the law, to recommend relief for defendants who are legally innocent."
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of course Darla will think this is perfectly ok, since she hates guns and gun rights, but most of these people are black, so maybe she will just be 'disappointed'.
 
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